Dutch Animated Short PIVOT now online

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Pivot is perfect proof that animation doesnt have to be the glizty  effexts with very detailed graphics to be visually pleasing as well as entertaining. This little short from Holland  uses minimal to great effect in details, colours, very basic but effective low-polygon style. Created by Kevin Megens, Floris Vos, Arno de Grijs and André Bergs with music sound from Alex Debicki.

The story is simple one about a man who was taking pictures and witnessed a murder happen. He also is able to get one of the killer and has to run for his life, but things turn for worse when the hunted becomes the hunter with a very dark sad ending.


Pivot from Pivot on Vimeo.

First Glimpse at Studio Ghibli’s Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers)

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Here's the new fantastic teaser trailer for Studio Ghibli’s next released project Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers).
If you know Japanese cinema you know when animation (or anime) is released its a major thing and even more when its Studio Ghibli well its even bigger!!!The animation has been directed by Studio Ghibli’s youngest ever director (36 years old) Hiromasa Yonebayashi who has worked on the work by the great master Hayao Miyazaki’s classics Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away. This is his directoral debut and if this is like the studio’s other work it will do well. The animation is based on the Mary Norton Book The Borrowers with the great man himself writing the screenplay.
Miyazaki and Isao Takahata his long time friend and partner have looked at creating the book for over 40 years and it must have been a great honour for Yonebayashi when they passed the project to him.The movie is due a Summer release in its native Japan, July 17th but for UK and Ireland we will probably have to wait at least 1 year or more if we do get a cinematic release date, USA possibly less.

synopsis: 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. - imdb

KnA teaser
by manuloz

Arthouse Horror in THE DEFILED

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What I love about this trailer is the retro/classic feel it has to it. Fans of cult horror movies will like the look of this movie THE DEFILED. This arthouse movie is written and directed by Julian Grant and when you look at it its like its stuck in a visual time warp between Noseferatu and Night of the Living dead, which you see in the above photo.Verbally there is only one line in the whole of the movie which is not alot as its a 100minute feature but visually and storywise its an very intriguing peice of work, the trailer is only 30 seconds long but you do get a sense of the movie is all about.

synopsis:

Set in a near distant future where an N1HI style of virus has decimated the populace, an infected man, his new-born child and an enigmatic beauty must seek food and shelter in this world-turned-wrong. - imdb 

The Defiled - First Trailer from Julian Grant on Vimeo.